Scenarios¶
The feature pages say what each feature does. These pages start from the other end: a situation on a real farm, with numbers, and the road from there to the result — through whichever features it takes, in the order it takes them.
Every scenario follows the same shape:
| Section | What it answers |
|---|---|
| The situation | Where you are — printers, models, what the customer said, what is going wrong. |
| The goal | What "done" looks like. |
| What is involved | The features that take part, with a link to each. |
| Step by step | What to open and what to press, and what you see after each step. |
| What BamDude does on its own after that | The part you do not have to do — the algorithm behind the button. |
| Pitfalls and what-ifs | The places people trip, and what happens when the plan meets reality. |
The farm in these pages is a made-up one: 48 printers of five models across three electrical phases, a customer on the phone, and one operator. The numbers are there so the steps are concrete — swap in your own.
Where the truth is
A scenario describes the road as it is today. Where a step is still manual, the page says so rather than promising a button that does not exist — and the page is updated when the road changes.
Power and starts¶
Three phases, one bed heating per phase¶
The farm sits on a three-phase supply and every plate-change round trips a breaker. Tags name the phase, the staggered start caps each phase on its own.
Keeping the breaker and the power bill in check¶
Staggered starts against the peak, smart-plug auto-off against the idle draw, and a kWh figure on every print so the cost is known, not guessed.
Queues and priorities¶
An urgent print ahead of the queue¶
Four brackets by lunchtime, on a farm where the auto-queue feeds every printer. Three ways to cut in, and which one to use when.
A hundred parts across five printer models¶
One part, sliced once per model, wanted a hundred times. Let the plan split the count by what the farm can actually take, and send it in one go.
A night shift with nobody in the shop¶
The auto-queue keeps the printers fed, swap mode clears plates, the alarms that matter get through quiet hours, and a failed print pauses itself.
Orders and stock¶
The customer asks when fifty will be ready¶
From an order line to a date: the plan says what to print, the forecast says when the farm gets there, the filament table says whether the spools last.
Recording scrap¶
Three of the eight lids warped. Where the number goes, what it changes on the order, and what is counted for you when you skip an object mid-print.
Surplus on the shelf, reused by the next order¶
The plate makes four, the order wanted three. The fourth goes onto a shelf, and the next order takes it instead of printing.
Keeping the farm running¶
Maintenance across fifty printers¶
Nine task types that know which machine has rods and which has rails, print-hour intervals, and a Telegram button for the person holding the grease.
A camera wall on the workshop TV¶
A screen on the wall that shows every camera and names no file — a kiosk token in the URL, nothing to log in to.